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  • The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery

    Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean

    par Daniel B. Rood ...
    The period of the "second slavery" was marked by geographic expansion of zones of slavery into the Upper US South, Cuba and Brazil and chronological expansion into the industrial age.As The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery shows, ambitious planters throughout the Greater Caribbean hired a transnational group of chemists, engineers, and other "plantation experts" to assist them in adapting ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Domino Diaries

    My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba

    par Brin-Jonathan Butler ...
    A powerful and lively work of immersive journalism, Brin-Jonathan Butler's The Domino Diaries tells the story of his time chasing the American dream through Cuba.Whether he's hustling his way into Mike Tyson's mansion for an interview, betting his life savings on a boxing match, becoming romantically entangled with one of Fidel Castro's granddaughters, or simply manufacturing press credentials to ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Visions of Power in Cuba

    Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

    par Lillian Guerra ...
    Collections series Envisioning Cuba
    In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba’s six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice.Mass rallies and ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Bunna Man

    Joe Grind Series

    par Crystal Evans ...
    Collections Livre 1 - Joe Grind Series
    A book about love, lies and deception between two women and the man who stole their hearts and played then both as fools. The never ending story of how a cute face and a smile turn smart women into foolish girls. ... En savoir plus

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  • The Quality of Home Runs

    The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball

    par Thomas F. Carter ...
    In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. Thomas F. Carter contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, games, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. The Quality of Home Runs is Carter’s lively ethnographic exploration of the interconnections between baseball ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Broadcasting Modernity

    Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960

    par Yeidy M. Rivero ...
    Collections series Console-ing Passions
    The birth and development of commercial television in Cuba in the 1950s occurred alongside political and social turmoil. In this period of dramatic swings encompassing democracy, a coup, a dictatorship, and a revolution, television functioned as a beacon and promoter of Cuba’s identity as a modern nation. In Broadcasting Modernity, television historian Yeidy M. Rivero shows how television owners, ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • All That Glitters

    par Michael Anthony ...
    When 13-year-old Horace's favourite aunt, Roomeen, arrives from her long sojourn in Panama, everyone is excited to see her; but everyone is even more interested in what is in her trunk. In the days following Auntie Roomeen's arrival, her gold chain goes missing, and the theft ignites the long-standing rift between Auntie Roomeen and her siblings. Amidst the arguing, Horace must question the ... En savoir plus

    $13.73 CAD

  • State Capitalism and World Revolution

    par C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, Grace Lee Boggs, Martin Glaberman ...
    Collections series The Charles H. Kerr Library
    Over sixty years ago, C.L.R. James and a small circle of collaborators making up the radical left Johnson-Forest Tendency reached the conclusion that there was no true socialist society existing anywhere in the world. Written in collaboration with Raya Dunayevskaya and Grace Lee Boggs, this is another pioneering critique of Lenin and Trotsky, and reclamation of Marx, from the West Indian scholar ... En savoir plus

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  • The Havana Habit

    par Gustavo Perez Firmat ...
    Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U.S. coast. Yet the island’s influences on America’s cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained.In the engaging and wide-ranging Havana Habit, writer and scholar Gustavo Pérez Firmat probes the importance of Havana, and of greater Cuba, in the cultural history of the United States. ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Chinese Cubans

    A Transnational History

    par Kathleen M. López ...
    Collections series Envisioning Cuba
    In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba’s infamous “coolie” trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better lives far from home. In a comprehensive, vibrant history that draws deeply on Chinese- and Spanish ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Buena Vista in the Club

    Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana

    par Geoffrey Baker, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Collections series Refiguring American music
    In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as “the music of the enemy,” leading figures in the hip hop scene soon convinced certain cultural institutions to accept and then promote rap as part of Cuba’s national culture. ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba

    par Ramón Dacal Moure, Manuel Rivero de la Calle ...
    Collections Livre 349 - Pitt Latin American Series
    Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba presents a number of works, sixteen reproduced in color, by pre-Columbian artists from the archipelago, covering three millennia of human life in Cuba.Living under difficult conditions, the first Cubans sculpted their emotions, fears, and hopes on stone, shell, wood, and bones. Much of their art has not previously been available either within or outside of ... En savoir plus

    $56.79 CAD